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spiceblog: Making Tonkotsu Ramen
This is a Japanese recipe. You make a homemade pork broth and then add ramen noodles and pork.
My question is regarding the broth. I don't know how easily I would be able to acquire pig's trotters, and quite frankly it doesn't sound that appealing to me using them as the base of a soup stock (I don't like eating animal organs to begin with.......the very idea is appauling to me). I realize pig's trotters aren't animal organs, but I'm not accustomed to cooking with them, so I really don't know how well it would turn out (and it's not a "cut" of pork meat that I'm accustomed to using).
The type of pork to be used with this recipe is pork belly. Once again, no clue how easy it will be for me to attain this cut of meat with pork. What could I use as an adequate substitute that will give me similar results?
This is a Japanese recipe. You make a homemade pork broth and then add ramen noodles and pork.
My question is regarding the broth. I don't know how easily I would be able to acquire pig's trotters, and quite frankly it doesn't sound that appealing to me using them as the base of a soup stock (I don't like eating animal organs to begin with.......the very idea is appauling to me). I realize pig's trotters aren't animal organs, but I'm not accustomed to cooking with them, so I really don't know how well it would turn out (and it's not a "cut" of pork meat that I'm accustomed to using).
The type of pork to be used with this recipe is pork belly. Once again, no clue how easy it will be for me to attain this cut of meat with pork. What could I use as an adequate substitute that will give me similar results?